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Question 1 - 10

• English and French leaders attempted to appease Hitler when he made his first

demands because?

Answer 1 – 10

• They wanted to avoid another destructive war

Question 1 - 20

• When Hitler invaded Poland and France, he used a new method of warfare called?

Answer 1 – 20

• Blitzkrieg (lightening war)

Question 1 - 30

• In the UN Security Council, what countries are permanent members with veto power?

Answer 1 – 30

• United States• U.S.S.R. (Russia)

• England• France• China

Question 1 - 40

• The American strategy for defeating Japan in the Pacific was called?

Answer 1 – 40

• Island-Hopping

Question 1 - 50

• Truman said the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were essential for?

Answer 1 – 50

• Containing Communism

Question 2 - 10

• United Nations troops in Korea were driven back across the 38th parallel by this new

Communist power.

Answer 2 – 10

• China

Question 2 - 20

• Joseph McCarthy created the media frenzy that began his communist witch hunt by?

Answer 2 – 20

• Saying that he had a list of Communists employed in the government

Question 2 - 30

• The Truman Doctrine resulted in?

Answer 2 – 30

• A pledge to fight communism with containment

Question 2 - 40

• The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to?

Answer 2 – 40

• Help Western Europe’s economy recover from WWII

Question 2 - 50

• The “iron curtain” was a symbol of?

Answer 2 – 50

• The division between Communist Eastern Europe and the Western democracies

Question 3 - 10

• The Korean War began when what happened?

Answer 3 – 10

• North Korean troops invaded the south

Question 3 - 20

• “Brinkmanship” was?

Answer 3 – 20

• Eisenhower’s policy of threatening nuclear war if the other side didn’t back down

Question 3 - 30

• The Berlin Wall was erected by who and why?

Answer 3 – 30

• The Soviets to keep people from escaping into West Berlin

Question 3 - 40

• Rather than go to war over the “Cuban Missile Crisis”, JFK chose to?

Answer 3 – 40

• Blockade Cuba to prevent more Soviet missile deliveries

Question 3 - 50

• The “Cuban Missile Crisis” forced the U.S. and Soviet Union to consider..?

Answer 3 – 50

• The consequences of a nuclear war

Question 4 - 10

• Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television helped?

Answer 4 – 10

• Create a credibility gap between the government and the people.

Question 4 - 20

• Define the Soviet Union’s new policy of perestroika (restructuring)

Answer 4 – 20

• Involves a new structure which includes some capitalist components

Question 4 - 30

• The Soviet Union’s glasnost (openness) policy allowed the people to?

Answer 4 – 30

• Openly discuss politics

Question 4 - 40

• The Pentagon Papers revealed that?

Answer 4 – 40

• The government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam. Many officials

privately opposed the war despite promoting it publicly.

Question 4 - 50

• A main reason President Johnson refused to order a full-scale invasion of North Vietnam

was his fear that, like had happened in Korea, it would?

Answer 4 – 50

• Bring China into the war

Question 5 - 10

• What event happened at My Lai that profoundly shocked Americans?

Answer 5 – 10

• Unarmed Vietnamese civilians were massacred by U.S. troops

Question 5 - 20

• President Johnson refused to allow a full-scale attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail because?

Answer 5 – 20

• It passed through Laos and Cambodia which were neutral in the war

Question 5 - 30

• The Vietcong’s power continued to increase in part because of?

Answer 5 – 30

• The Vietcong’s use of terror and the effects of American napalm and agent orange

Question 5 - 40

• What are some reasons for the difficult nature of the Vietnam war for American soldiers?

Answer 5 – 40

• Vietcong guerrilla fighting tactics• Vietcong’s ability to melt into the civilian

population• American military tactics (napalm, agent orange, civilian deaths) turning many South

Vietnamese to the Vietcong’s side

Question 5 - 50

• The collapse of the Soviet economy was mostly due to?

Answer 5 – 50

• Inefficient central planning and huge expenditures on the arms race